my ships don´t auofire their weapons i can only fire the weapons manually. Does anyone have a clue to change this?

Is it just an amount of time? I had a long battle over like 4 turns with the AI vs my flagship and four carriers and several Hunters were lost... but now after like 10 turns of guarding the planet until reinforcements got there I just noticed the hunters were back....

So, I fear the day I am forced to go to windows 11, and I now have a laptop that runs it, however with windows 11 it seems that I cannot run the game, and I want to. So does anyone know a fix so that I can play SOTS on windows 11?

I have opened the 2 .gob files and I can not find anything relevant to the techtree... only techtree files and .tga ... nothing about who has what tech

So apparently cruisers are about 90 meters long. And slave disks aren't even nearly the size of the cruiser they are carried by. And yet these disks seem to hold up to 50 million slaves. I'm no physicist, but I feel like cramming that many slaves in a disk would be rather difficult. Perhaps if they're pureed first? But then how does one reconstitute them upon arrival at the drop off point? Or maybe if the slaves are all small Liir fish (hard to get much work production out of them I would think)? ...